Objetivo PLUS achieves robustness in natural language understanding by treating natural language as a communicative activity whose essential characteristic is to convey a meaning that is both appropriate and contextually relevant.An environment for developing intelligent natural language interfaces to interactive computing environments (both information seeking dialogue systems and problem solving environments) has been developed. A first demonstrator, interactive Yellow Pages, was developed; the modular architecture incorporates a replaceable application model, enabling new applications to be produced with relatively little effort. Currently available languages are English and French. The emphasis on pragmatics and language independent reasoning, and the resulting simplicity and modularity of the language specific knowledge bases, facilitates the adaptation of the system to new languages or multilingual use.Since the intention of a human user of natural language is to convey a message, and since all messages occur in some context, it is crucially important to exploit this context in the derivation of the intended interpretation. This contrasts with other approaches to the problem of robustness, which miss the heart of the problem, which is to react appropriately in a context created or updated by the fact that a user has typed something at a keyboard with the express purpose of communicating a message. One key issue is the exploitation of both pragmatic and linguistic phenomena (such as interpretation with respect to context) in order to provide reasoning-based robustness in natural language understanding by integrating these two areas. Programa(s) FP2-ESPRIT 2 - European strategic programme (EEC) for research and development in information technologies (ESPRIT), 1987-1992 Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación Data not available Coordinador CAP Gemini Innovation Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 7 chemin du Vieux Chêne 38240 Meylan Francia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (7) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Francia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 91406 Orsay Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT Países Bajos Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección HOGESCHOOLLAAN, 225, 10153 5000 LE TILBURG Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Omega Generation Srl Italia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via Murri 39 40137 Bologna Ver en el mapa Enlaces Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Scientific Control Systems Informationstechnik Gmbh Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Oehleckerring 40 22419 Hamburg Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF GOTEBORG-THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING (IVF) Suecia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección MOLNDALSVAGEN, 85 41298 GOTEBORG Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos University of Bristol Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Tyndall Avenue BS8 1TH Bristol Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Sackville Street M60 1QD Manchester Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos